MY HOMELAND

A video essay about my parents, a potter and a weaver, who move to rural Arkansas, build a house, and make art. Giving advice to artists, my dad said, “If you have something that you have to say, you’re going to do it. If you want to get distracted by other things, then you will. You have to be passionate enough and crazy enough about what you want to do in an existential kind of way to where you will do without other things. I mean, if other material objects or a certain lifestyle or a certain materialistic state, if those are more important to you than the creative work, then you’re not going to become an artist.”